Carl Lewis Quotes
You can't live your life through your children.
Carl Lewis
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
Sam Donaldson
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The harder you work, the luckier you get.
Gary Player
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I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic.
Rachel Zoe
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
Warren Kole
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
Callum Keith Rennie
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
Mahershala Ali
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I think it'd be great if the evening news broadcast, for instance, were unsponsored and unrated.
Walter Cronkite
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
Pankaj Mishra
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
Jack Kingston
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
Samantha Bond
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
Jack Canfield
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
J. M. Coetzee
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Right reason is stronger than force.
James A. Garfield
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I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life.
Jerry Lewis
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
Alan Alda
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The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.
William Shakespeare
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I can no more reread my own books than I can watch old home movies or look at snapshots of myself as a child. I wind up sitting on the floor, paralyzed by grief and nostalgia.
Francine Prose
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You can't live your life through your children.
Carl Lewis
